SOCC38H3 Study Guide - Biological Determinism, Essentialism, Masculinity
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Difference in the definition between sex and gender. Gender= how they are manifested in social world, through social cultural construction, hwo the bio differences are played out. Reading says how socio explanation of gender differ from bio and psycho explanations. (main point) What does socio contribute to our understanding of gender and gender diff that we don"t get from bio, psych and anthro. Gender diff across diff cultures and time periods. An extent to which we look for gender diff in society, how we use the term for opposite sex as if we are completely diff and there is no overlap between men and women. Some traits that only men have and women don"t absolutely no over lap, and often times the mean differences (the average differnce) Second point most of the time when we do see gender differences, we tend to perceive what ever it is that men have and tend to be better,
